Niles, Illinois

Niles is a village in Cook County, Illinois. It was first settled in 1827, and many Native Americans lived in the area until the end of the Black Hawk War in 1833. It was named for Niles Construction, which built the village, and it was settled mostly by German immigrants. On 2 April 1855, Niles was organized as a township, and it was incorporated as a village on 24 August 1899. Niles grew in the years after World War II, when Chicagoan veterans established families in the city's streetcar suburbs. From 1953 to 1962, the population tripled and then doubled. In 2018, Niles had a population of 29,184 people.